{"id":704712,"date":"2010-03-30T11:04:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T15:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.74974"},"modified":"2010-03-30T11:30:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T15:30:06","slug":"march-30-could-become-vietnam-veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/704712","title":{"rendered":"March 30 Could Become Vietnam Veterans Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers are considering a bill that would require the governor to declare March 30 of each year Vietnam Veterans Day. It would also make &#8220;Taps&#8221; by Daniel Butterfield the state song of rememberance. <\/p>\n<p>The bill was unanimously passed by both the legislature&#8217;s veterans affairs and government administration and elections committees this session.&nbsp;It must now be voted on by the full General Assembly and signed by the governor before it can become law.<\/p>\n<p>According to language in the bill, March 30 would commemorate and honor the return home of members of the armed forces who served in Vietnam. <\/p>\n<p>To honor Vietnam veterans, Rep. Ted Graziani, D-Ellington, co-chairman of the veterans affairs committee, is holding a Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans ceremony tonight at 6:30 p.m.&nbsp;at the legislative office building. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut would not be the first state to declare March 30 Vietnam Veterans Day. Some states already hold celebrations, as do some Connecticut towns. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers are considering a bill that would require the governor to declare March 30 of each year Vietnam Veterans Day. It would also make &#8220;Taps&#8221; by Daniel Butterfield the state song of rememberance. The bill was unanimously passed by both the legislature&#8217;s veterans affairs and government administration and elections committees this session.&nbsp;It must now be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Xkk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}